Today, it has been one year since the first Merge Request (MR) was created and accepted by ResNet* Gitlab. During that time, about 250 working days, we have processed 462 MRs as part of our Puppet workflow. That’s almost two a day!
We introduced Git and Gitlab into our workflow to replace the ageing svn component which didn’t handle branching and merging well at all. Jumping to Git’s versatile branching model and more recently adding r10k into the mix has made it trivially easy to spin up ephemeral dev environments to work on features and fixes, and then to test and release them into the production environment safely.
We honestly can’t work out how on earth we used to cope without such a cool workflow.
Happy Birthday, ResNet Gitlab!
* 1990s ResNet brand for historical reasons only – this Gitlab installation is used mostly for managing eduroam and DNS. Maybe NetOps would have been a better name 🙂
Happy Birthday ResNet Gitlab. You almost made it to 500 MRs in a year!